Vincent Lindner
@vincentlindner.bsky.social
Political Economist and Economic Historian. Work on Social Europe, fiscal union, and international finance.
Well, it's because real integration requires member states' to yield some of their precious national sovereignity and guess what: They don't like it.
March 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Well, it's because real integration requires member states' to yield some of their precious national sovereignity and guess what: They don't like it.
The European Commission for the next three to five years:
March 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The European Commission for the next three to five years:
Garbage in garbage out model.
March 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Garbage in garbage out model.
US bonds have even overtaken German bonds as the main safe assets in the euro area in 2024.
February 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
US bonds have even overtaken German bonds as the main safe assets in the euro area in 2024.
Aktuell führt die Schuldenbremse zu einem Mangel an safe assets im Euro-Raum und somit dazu, dass Liquidität vermehrt mit US-Anleihen hinterlegt wird. Anstatt europäische Souveränität zu fördern und De-Risking zu betreiben, nehmen die geoökonomischen Risiken sogar zu.
February 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Aktuell führt die Schuldenbremse zu einem Mangel an safe assets im Euro-Raum und somit dazu, dass Liquidität vermehrt mit US-Anleihen hinterlegt wird. Anstatt europäische Souveränität zu fördern und De-Risking zu betreiben, nehmen die geoökonomischen Risiken sogar zu.
Der Niedersachsen-Klüngel in der SPD hat mich radikalisiert.
February 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Der Niedersachsen-Klüngel in der SPD hat mich radikalisiert.
Bezeichnend auch die inhaltliche Kritik an Reichen-Bashing, Anti-Amerikanismus und Fokus auf Migration. Wer, wenn nicht Wagenknecht, sollte denn für diese inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte stehen? Es ist ihr Programm zu 100%.
February 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Bezeichnend auch die inhaltliche Kritik an Reichen-Bashing, Anti-Amerikanismus und Fokus auf Migration. Wer, wenn nicht Wagenknecht, sollte denn für diese inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte stehen? Es ist ihr Programm zu 100%.
Alles muss eine Verschwörung sein. In diesem Fall ehemalige Linke, die zum BSW sind, um es von innen zu zerstören und Sarah Wagenknecht absägen wollen.
February 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Alles muss eine Verschwörung sein. In diesem Fall ehemalige Linke, die zum BSW sind, um es von innen zu zerstören und Sarah Wagenknecht absägen wollen.
Zwei Artikel in der FAZ von heute: Tim B. Müller macht die mangelnde Kompromissfähigkeit der Sozialdemokratie für das Aus der letzten parlamentarischen Regierung der Weimarer Republik verantwortlich. Berthold Kohler referriert auf die Dolchstoßelegende.
February 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Zwei Artikel in der FAZ von heute: Tim B. Müller macht die mangelnde Kompromissfähigkeit der Sozialdemokratie für das Aus der letzten parlamentarischen Regierung der Weimarer Republik verantwortlich. Berthold Kohler referriert auf die Dolchstoßelegende.
Neither can the article explain why one set of anti-inflationary policies (price controls) should work electorally, while another (increases in real income) should not. And as @mcopelov.bsky.social has pointed out: Voters' concern for inflation is nowadays but a proxy for partisanship.
January 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Neither can the article explain why one set of anti-inflationary policies (price controls) should work electorally, while another (increases in real income) should not. And as @mcopelov.bsky.social has pointed out: Voters' concern for inflation is nowadays but a proxy for partisanship.
Similar things can be said about the last paragraph. While I don't know much about the economic effects of Nixon's price controls (and would have loved to learn more from the article), I feel confident that nobody and nothing helped him more to secure reelection than George McGovern.
January 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Similar things can be said about the last paragraph. While I don't know much about the economic effects of Nixon's price controls (and would have loved to learn more from the article), I feel confident that nobody and nothing helped him more to secure reelection than George McGovern.
Anyway, my main criticism here is that the electoral story excludes important aspects: Sanchez won as much as his coalition partner lost, while the centre-right surged. While impressive in his own right, Sanchez barely survived by making concessions to various separatist parties.
January 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Anyway, my main criticism here is that the electoral story excludes important aspects: Sanchez won as much as his coalition partner lost, while the centre-right surged. While impressive in his own right, Sanchez barely survived by making concessions to various separatist parties.
I wouldn't call this discretionary use of state power to call out companies "most impressive" and "ambitious" and wouldn't recommend it to (centre-) left governments thriving to win re-election. And that's not only because I don't want to imagine the prime time Scholz show.
January 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I wouldn't call this discretionary use of state power to call out companies "most impressive" and "ambitious" and wouldn't recommend it to (centre-) left governments thriving to win re-election. And that's not only because I don't want to imagine the prime time Scholz show.
Ein Nachruf, in dem jeder Satz stimmt: Über Kissinger und die USA der 1970er Jahre natürlich, aber erst recht über die erwartbaren Eulogien in der Berichterstattung und die Obsession deutscher Politiker mit Kissinger.
November 30, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Ein Nachruf, in dem jeder Satz stimmt: Über Kissinger und die USA der 1970er Jahre natürlich, aber erst recht über die erwartbaren Eulogien in der Berichterstattung und die Obsession deutscher Politiker mit Kissinger.
Aufgrund dieser Politik ist Oskar Lafontaine damals aus der SPD ausgetreten...
November 16, 2023 at 1:22 PM
Aufgrund dieser Politik ist Oskar Lafontaine damals aus der SPD ausgetreten...
Der Historiker in mir möchte alle Unternehmen markieren, die ihre Geschichte im Nationalsozialismus unzureichend aufgearbeitet haben, während den IPÖler die Beteiligungen von katarischen und arabischen Staatsfonds interessiert.
November 2, 2023 at 5:20 PM
Der Historiker in mir möchte alle Unternehmen markieren, die ihre Geschichte im Nationalsozialismus unzureichend aufgearbeitet haben, während den IPÖler die Beteiligungen von katarischen und arabischen Staatsfonds interessiert.
Finally, the museum does a disservice to "civil rights leader" Martin Luther King and integrates him into the anti-communist narrative - completely ignoring his socialist policies and the anti-communist propaganda brought against him.
October 23, 2023 at 8:37 AM
Finally, the museum does a disservice to "civil rights leader" Martin Luther King and integrates him into the anti-communist narrative - completely ignoring his socialist policies and the anti-communist propaganda brought against him.
International sports events were expensive and people had affairs. Damn you, communism.
October 23, 2023 at 8:34 AM
International sports events were expensive and people had affairs. Damn you, communism.
It's incredibly unscientific indeed. A few favourites of mine: Czechoslovakia developed a heavy industry "drawing from the outdated economic theories of Karl Marx". Economic planning also caused plant closures and pollution during the 50s and 60s, while capitalist economies were fine I guess...
October 23, 2023 at 8:32 AM
It's incredibly unscientific indeed. A few favourites of mine: Czechoslovakia developed a heavy industry "drawing from the outdated economic theories of Karl Marx". Economic planning also caused plant closures and pollution during the 50s and 60s, while capitalist economies were fine I guess...